On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Thomas M. Albright wrote: > Most of that I can figure out on my own. The only problem I really have > is with the dates. I know 'date +%x` will output the current date as > mm/dd/yyyy. `date +%j` will give me the day of the year (eg.: today is > 107). Using that format quits working sometime in October tho. (10/3 is > 276 + 90 = 366)
I've had to do a lot of this kind of thing recently and I've found that using epoch time (seconds since 1/1 1970) is the easiest method. Perl has all kinds of manipulations for this (and if you're interested in it, I can give you some examples). time and localtime should do it, I believe. Ben -- Vicious as a tigeress can be, she never eats her own cubs. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
